From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Starnge rm behavour Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 23:20:55 -0800 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt Lines: 19 Message-ID: <331FC1D7.5738@cs.com> References: Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp104.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Eli Zaretskii wrote: > On 6 Mar 1997, R.G. Morgan wrote: > > As to problems using redir with non-GNU programs - how many people use > > redir with these programs anyway? Would it be that much of a problem if it > > assumed the command target was djgpp-compiled ? > So I think `redir' should be able to be > used with both DJGPP and non-DJGPP programs alike. Just to insert a bit of sense here, the patch for 'redir' that I posted solves all these problems by using system() instead of spawnvp(). So there's really no need to have this argument. :) -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I | mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | | God's final message to His Creation: | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | | "We apologize for the inconvenience."| Fight against proprietary | | - Douglas Adams | software - support the FSF!| ---------------------------------------------------------------------